CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929 — Page 125

Your Excellency.

JUNIOR CARLTON CLUB

PALL MALL

5th September 1928

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I very much appreciate the privilege of being

permitted to read your Excellency's confidential Minute of the

17th ult in reference to the Water Supply of Hongkong.

I have no data before me, but from memory

the present position is as follows :-

(a) Old and New Kowloon by reason of the new catchment area on the

north side of the Kowloon Hills together with the fact that the

Shing Mun Stream can be diverted into the Kowloon Reservoir by

the new tunnel is fully supplied for the present but by the

anticipated large increase of its population in the not distant

future such supply will before long become inadequate.

(b) That the present water supply to the Island of Hongkong is

at present insufficient, that the position will and is continually

becoming worse and that the Aberdeen Scheme when and if completed

will only be a temporary expedient.

Putting the position broadly both Kowloon and

the Island of Hongkong require a largely increased water supply

for the future.

There are at present three schemes before us:-

1) The Aberdeen scheme which may fairly be

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